825. Non-violent non-cooperation movement
After passing Luzon, the fleet sailed southwest for several days to the exit of the Strait of Malacca.
Zheng Zhifeng introduced to him: "After we defeated the Netherlands a few years ago, my brother sent troops to Southeast Asia on your orders, and once held the Strait of Malacca in his hands, but after the Industrial Revolution, it was recaptured by the British. β
Yi Yun nodded, everyone picked up the binoculars to watch the situation in the Strait of Malacca, only to see that the two sides of the strait are floating broken planks everywhere, and traces of shelling can be seen everywhere on the shore, it turns out that Zheng Zhilong's fleet and Western European colonists have fought a tragic naval battle here, because the industrial revolution is too cheating, as a result, Zheng Zhilong was defeated, hundreds of wooden warships were sunk, broken planks are everywhere on the sea in this area, and the crooked cannonballs have smashed a lot of reefs on both sides, although it has been a long time, but the traces of war are still visibleγ
Yi Yun was a little angry, and couldn't help but say: "They have the Industrial Revolution to cheat, and we also have me to cheat, I'm afraid of Mao! What is the situation in the Strait of Malacca now?"
Zheng Zhifeng introduced: "The Strait of Malacca is now controlled by the British, and they know that our Dameng country has a powerful battleship Dameng, and it has been turned to the Beiyang Fleet from the hands of the Qing people, so there are batteries all over the Strait of Malacca, and you look carefully with binoculars, and the mountaintops on both sides of the strait are full of fortifications. β
Iyun raised his telescope and looked at the top of the hills on either side of the strait, and sure enough, in the shadow of the mountains and forests, he could faintly see some forts, which were built behind the solid cement fortifications, with only one cannonball sticking out. In order to ensure the concealment of these batteries, the British also piled up many branches and leaves on the outside of the batteries, so they could not see if they did not pay attention.
Yi Yun frowned and said, "It seems that we can't cross the Strait of Malacca." β
Zheng Zhifeng nodded: "If you want to take these batteries, you need the army to attack them, blow up the batteries, and then the navy can pass through the strait, otherwise it won't work." β
Yi Yun didn't bring the army over this time, so he had to give up, he thought for a while and said, "Just implement a blockade on this side of the Strait of Malacca." "According to Yi Yun's order, the Beiyang Naval Division was scattered at the southeast exit of the Strait of Malacca. Closely monitoring the movement at the mouth of the strait. Due to the blockade operation of the Beiyang Naval Division. Nearby fishing boats and merchant ships were afraid to pass anymore, and the sea was dead.
Two or three days later, a small merchant ship suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca, flying the British flag. After the lookout of the Beiyang Naval Division spotted the boat. It was immediately intercepted. Unexpectedly, after stopping it, I found that the crew on this ship was all Indians, and it turned out to be a British Indian merchant ship.
The leader of this group of Indians was named Ah San. As soon as he saw the soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division, he immediately asked in a half-baked language, "Is General Zheng Zhilong here?"
Yi Yun Daqi asked someone to call Ah San over and said: "General Zheng Zhilong didn't come, I am his boss, Zhu Yun, the prince of Shanghai in Dameng Kingdom, if you have anything, just tell me." β
Ah San hurriedly said: "It's the same for you, after receiving the secret letter and economic aid from General Zheng Zhilong, our Indian country immediately started a vigorous independence movement, and under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the people of all India launched a non-violent non-cooperation movement against the British colonizers. We have resisted the government, the institutions, the courts, and the schools by peaceful means, and have taken the form of strikes, boycotts of British goods, and non-violent struggles such as resistance, and now the docks in Calcutta are almost paralyzed, and the European ships here cannot find workers to help load and unload the goods, and they are already in a state of exhaustion. Ah San said as he took out Zheng Zhilong's token, and after Zheng Zhifeng checked his ignorance, he believed that he was indeed his own person.
When Yi Yun heard that India was in chaos, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Yo, that's good!"
Ah San said proudly: "We Indians are not vegetarians. β
Iyun thought to himself: Isn't that Mahatma Gandhi just a vegetarian? Non-violent non-cooperation, the methods used by the Indians to resist the colonizers are full of vegetarian style, and dare to say that they are not vegetarians.
He thought of one thing in his heart, but his mouth said: "Wow, the Indian people are amazing, admire and admire." What are you doing with me?"
Ah San said: "General Zheng Zhilong promised that if we engage in this non-violent non-cooperation movement, he will provide us with some funds and food aid, and we have fulfilled our promise, and I would like to ask General Zheng Zhilong to fulfill his promise." You know, this activity will leave a large number of people without work, without income, and they will need assistance to continue the movement. β
Yi Yun thought to himself: That's right, these Indian Asans have no income if they go on strike, and if they don't help them, this movement won't last long, and I have to help. India was an important transit point for European colonizers to attack Asia, and as long as it was done here, the Eight-Nation Coalition would be cut off from logistics.
He said to Ah San: "Well, I will help, but I want to see with my own eyes how your non-violent non-cooperation is going, I can't just rely on your words, I will send you a large amount of supplies, right?"
Ah San nodded and said, "Indeed, then please ask the prince to bring some people and follow us to India to have a look." β
Yi Yun took a few capable girls, put on Indian clothes, and mixed into Ah San's boat. The reason why he asked to go and see it was because on the one hand it was to see India, and on the other hand, he also wanted to use Ah San and others as a cover to get into the Strait of Malacca to reconnoitre.
The ship was driving in the Strait of Malacca, only to see that the shore guns on both sides of the strait were faintly aimed at them, and not far from the mouth of the gorge, a British patrol ship approached to inquire. Ah San's ship had just passed through the Strait of Malacca, so the British did not inspect it in detail, but just asked casually: "You just crossed the strait, why did you come back again?"
Ah San said: "The opposite side was blocked by the warships of the Great Meng Kingdom, and I couldn't get out, so I had to return to India." β
The soldier on the British patrol ship smiled: "Fool, we told you when you went over just now, the opposite side has been blocked, you still have to go over, it is lucky to be able to pick up a small life." β
Ah San set sail to the laughter and scolding of the British soldiers, sailed northwest, and soon passed Kuala Lumpur, only to see many ships moored here, it turned out that since Eyun blocked the southwest entrance of the Strait of Malacca, many European ships were too frightened to go out, so they all stayed in Kuala Lumpur. These ships that were stuck here did not leave for a long time, and the business of Kuala Lumpur was lively, and later Kuala Lumpur became the largest city in Malaysia and a cosmopolitan city, because of the credit of Yiyun, of course, the Malays would never admit it, and this truth was hidden in history.
After leaving the Strait of Malacca, head northwest along the coastline, and at the northernmost point of the Bay of Bengal is the port of Kolkata, arguably one of the most important ports in India today.
As the port of Kolkata drew closer and closer, Ah San became more and more happy, and he introduced to Iyun: "Kolkata is the largest city in our India, and Mahatma Gandhi is located here, and under his leadership, our struggle is about to be won, and it is said that the British have been overwhelmed by our resistance and are about to declare India's independence. β
Yi Yun replied casually.
On this day, the ship finally came to the southern sea of the port of Calcutta, Eyun picked up the binoculars and looked into the city, sure enough, Kolkata was in chaos, there were countless people in the streets demonstrating, some people smashed and looted, the British soldiers were all driven to the docks, relying on the deterrence of the big warships on the docks, so that they were not attacked by the mob, and the whole city was paralyzed.
Yi Yun secretly rejoiced in his heart: If this happens, the European colonizers should also have a lot of headaches, right? Even if it is suppressed by the army, it is very difficult, because there are millions of people in Calcutta, and it is useless for the European colonists to send a few thousand people to suppress it, but they can't send more people, because the Eight-Nation Alliance is still attacking the Great Meng Country......
He was in schadenfreude for a while, and then smiled at Ah San and said, "You guys did a good job, I already understand, you can find more transport ships and take my tokens to Dameng to transport supplies." β
Ah San Xi.
While the two were talking, they suddenly saw the British soldiers on the dock actually withdraw from the battleship and sail out of the port of Calcutta.
Yi Yunqi said: "Are these British people going to give up? and they all left...... They're not suppressing it?"
Ah San also felt strange.
The British warship left the harbor and headed south, and Ah San's merchant ship flew the British flag, so he boldly followed. I saw that the British warships sailed south for a while, and came to a place called the "Andaman Ni-Cobar Islands", which had gathered quite a few British warships, and they protected the small island, and some figures on the island walked around, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
Yi Yun picked up the telescope and took a look, it turned out that there was a huge magic array drawn in the open space on the island, this magic array was generally round, and there were many symbols written on it, and Yi Yun couldn't read it. Around the magic circle stood a circle of red-clad priests, and it seemed that these people were the so-called cardinal archbishops. Yi Yun counted, there were a total of 178 cardinal archbishops, which is really a lot.
He thought to himself: There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to get it, it turns out that the cardinal archbishops are here, I don't know what rituals they are doing, I want to take a good look.
I saw that the 178 cardinal archbishops were all sitting on the edge of the magic array, their hands raised to the sky, and their mouths seemed to be chanting, and the magic array painted on the ground suddenly began to glow, and the huge energy began to gather in the magic array...... That energy can even be seen with the naked eye, like a ball of light, brighter and brighter......
Yi Yun remembered a sentence from the cartoon and couldn't help but laugh: "The high-energy reaction ahead ......" (to be continued.) )